GEEKY STUFF

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Just in time!

From Tuesday's New York Post's PAGE SIX:

The elderly proprietor of Albanese Meats - the old-school NoLIta store used by Martin Scorsese in "Mean Streets" and Robert De Niro's American Express ad - got an early Christmas gift Thursday: his life. Mo Albanese was preparing a crown roast for a customer and chatting about the actors whose photos adorn his wall, when he suddenly dropped his knife and collapsed to the floor. The customer, an investigator with the state Office of Tax Enforcement, called 911. Emergency workers quickly arrived to help Albanese, who's now said to be doing fine in a hospital. "Thank God I was there," the customer told The Post's Dan Mangan.

7 Comments:

Have you missed the significance of this scene? I fully expect to see it in a forthcoming Scorcese film. The "customer" was an investigator for the tax enforcement office. He was probably there to pick up his "year-end bonus" while discussing new percentages for the coming year. Mr. Albanese was probably trying to placate him with a large crown roast when the "customer" eumerated "enforcement procedures". "TG I was there.", indeed. Mr. Albanese might not have had a crisis if the enforcer had not been there.